EcoLogica: workshops and ideas for a sustainable future
A day to imagine a greener, fairer, and more responsible future together: on Saturday, October 18, Rovereto’s Progetto Manifattura Tabacchi will be transformed into an open-air workshop with EcoLogica, an event promoted by the Department of Ecological Transition and Environment of the Municipality of Rovereto. The events brings together associations, businesses, organizations, and citizens […]
A theater show about the floods in Emilia-Romagna and a talk about plant rights at THE SONG OF THE EARTH
After the inauguration with Alex Cattoi’s Elemental Reflections exhibition at the Tartarotti Library, Il Canto della Terra (The Song of the Earth) is now in full swing in Rovereto. The festival, which runs until Sunday, October 12, combines science, art, and civic engagement to explore the challenges of ecological transition and of climate change. Today, […]
Hunger and nourishment in a contaminated world
In the stifling heat of another record-breaking summer, I find myself unable to decide what to eat. This small dilemma unfolds into a reflection on food, climate anxiety, and the lost intimacy between body and environment. What nourishes us—truly—when the world outside feels too hot, too sterile, too distant?
Global climate governance: context, challenges and prospects
The foundations of international climate governance were laid in the early 1970s, with the landmark 1972 United Nations Conference on Human Environment in Stockholm. It is regarded as the first international event that links environment and development, and tackled issues such as deforestation, desertification and water scarcity. The event marked the beginning of global climate […]
The Environmental Crisis, the Anthropocene and the Capitalocene: Human Intervention or Reorganization of the Web of Life?
Within discourse regarding the environmental crisis, the focus often falls on issues that are defined and bounded: rising sea levels, fossil fuel use, deforestation, desertification — among them, perhaps the most frequently referenced concern relates to rising temperatures. In the media, in education and in policy, the explanation for the current crisis mainly underlines […]
Perovskite Solar Panels: Revolutionizing Renewable Energy
Perovskite solar panels: a groundbreaking discovery promises to make solar energy more accessible and sustainable than ever before. Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed an highly innovative technology that could radically transform the way we produce energy: perovskite solar panels. These new panels are incredibly thin and flexible, so much so that they […]
